A couple years ago I realized that most places that offer punch cards like “buy ten get one free” use very generic hole punchers. I bought a hole puncher that does various shapes that I’ve seen places use. Circles, stars and hearts mostly. I don’t go over the top with it, mostly to avoid suspicion. I still buy sandwiches and coffees as usual, but my punchcards end up being more like five to one. Many of these places overcharge for goods anyway, so I don’t feel that bad about it.
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Yolo
Fucked up to do to a small business
Good for you!
The holier-than-thou Redditors will spit on you from the great height of their basements while mommy brings them a fresh hot pocket.
For corporate chains please continue. For local businesses personally I’d rather you eat parts of their parking lot first.
A business gave out blank loyalty cards and the cashier would just scribble in the blank logo (x8) with sharpie. So i got a new loyalty card each time and sharpied it to full at home. I never used them though albeit it would be too easy to do so.
This is genius. I’m gonna see if we have something like that near me.
r/ulpt material here.
Lifehacks that actually work
Once a coffee shop’s new reward point cards were delivered to the store I worked at accidentally. I took them and the stickers and filled them out myself, had unlimited coffees for a while.
I gave some to my aunt, and she kept going to the same location, multiple times a day, so obviously they knew something was up and cancelled the card system. 🥲
Why big companies moved to apps so I would assume these are small businesses which is just WRONG
You should post this on r/unethicallifeprotips
Interesting justification for being a thief… many of these places overcharge for goods anyway so I don’t feel bad about it… as if you have some kind of moral authority to decide how much a business should charge for its food! Just understand this no bad deedgoes unpunished. You will get caught and you will suffer the consequences.
I think the restaurant you have been stealing from will go easier on you if you go to them and confess what you have done apologize and offered to pay back the money you owe them for the food that you stole
“overcharge for goods”. Some places do. I would argue that small local businesses don’t. There is tons of risk in running a small business and what seems like over charging is actually barely scraping by.
Run the numbers one day. After employee wages, taxes, rent, food cost, gas, electric, insurance, recouping startup costs, marketing, and everything else, it should start to make sense that a coffee can’t cost less than 5 dollars if you want to stay in business.
Do you steal other stuff, too? Or just food for now?
LOL @ all the responses that condone or even encourage stealing from restaurants that “take advantage of their workers.” Did it occur to any of you, ever, that maybe if those places weren’t being stolen from constantly (by customers and employees, really), they could afford to pay their workers better?
Treat people the way you want to be treated. If you wanna steal, don’t bitch about “getting taken advantage of”. That includes the small business owner that owns that Starbucks/Subway/whatever franchise.
It’s a form of theft regardless if it is a chain or a family business
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Don’t worry about it. It’s just fraud. Why stop there? Pay with counterfeit currency and stolen credit cards.
And…. why have I never thought of this 😂🙌🙌
EAT THE RICH
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